by Futuro Verde | Aug 30, 2018
The month of patriotic celebrations is approaching quickly! Our country is celebrating its 197th anniversary of independence and we have already started preparing for the event.
We begin on Wednesday, September 12th at 6:00 pm, with our civic week participation at the Cóbano bull ring.
Next, on Friday, September 14th, we participate in the torch run, and in the evening we take part in the lantern parade
at 6:00 p.m., walking from the municipality building towards the circle of Cóbano.
The culminating activity is the independence day parade on Saturday, September 15th, at 8 pm, in the center of Cóbano.
by Angie Briceño | Aug 3, 2018
Year after year, we continually improve our grant application process at Futuro Verde. This year for the first time, this process was carried out by a professional social worker, Mariela Quirós Meza, who was in charge of receiving the scholarship packages and forms, collecting and analyzing the information, paying home visits, and conducting interviews with families to remove doubts. At the end of the process, the social worker delivers a complete report containing recommendations.
For the 2019 school year, we established three different percentages after analyzing the financial scope of the John Dolan Scholarship Fund: 30%, 50% and 70%.
The 2018 scholarship process involved the following:
- Interview and hiring of a professional in the area of Social Work.
- Period of scholarship and document submissions from June 18 to July 16.
- Case analysis by the social worker and home visits from June 18 to July 16.
- Report deliveries to families from July 17 to July 20.
We remind you that the scholarship program is an annual condition, so the scholarship or discount awarded lasts only one school year. This process will be repeated every year for all families who wish to participate and meet the requirements for a scholarship or discount.
We invite you to participate in the scholarship process for the 2020 school year starting in June 2019.
by Lural Ramirez | Sep 3, 2017
Our Futuro Verde community have been so enthusiastic regarding the recent improvements made to our campus as we comply with the requirements of IB* verification! Read below for a summary of the improvements we’ve had and the students who will access these beautiful, new spaces.
- State of the art science laboratory: designed to support exploration and experimentation, our science lab features science counters with stations for up to four students to work together as they do experiments. Each station features a sink, gas connection for a Bunsen burner and electrical outlet. Our adjacent science prep room keeps all our lab materials and equipment safe and ready for student use! Beakers, graduated cylinders, scientific sensors, petri dishes, microscopes and much, much more. Our science lab is a space that all students, preschool through secondary, will use in science and environmental education classes!
- Big and welcoming school library: with separate library wings for preschool/primary and secondary, all students in Futuro Verde have full access to our continually growing collection of books. We have over 4,000 books in our collection currently, all cataloged within a library inventory system and with a schedule for weekly visit and lending processing for all grade levels. Comfortable seating, private study space and a beautiful mural welcome our students to develop their love of reading daily! Our collection ranges from board books for our preschoolers to non-fiction texts on global warming for our oldest students and all the way to classic literature in both Spanish and English and texts in multiple languages other than Spanish and English (Hebrew, French, German and Italian- just to name a few!). Our school library is a space that all students, preschool through secondary, access daily during both free play times, before and after school times and integrated into regular classroom instruction and learning!
- Spacious multi-media center: 20 desktop computers are available to our students of all ages in a dedicated computer lab, set up to support all multi-media needs. With regular technology classes at all grade levels, Futuro Verde students from preschool through high school learn about all aspects of Information Technology Systems. A new, and exciting, addition to our multi-media center is our school site license with EBSCO, which offers research databases for our students, Ebook collections for students in kindergarten through high school, access to thousands of online magazines and periodicals and so much more! Our multi-media center is a space that all students, preschool through secondary, use in support of their learning in all subject areas and classes!
- Dedicated and creative art studio: with two separate levels and an open design, all students from preschool through secondary enjoy weekly art classes in our dedicated art space, with adjacent and spacious art supply space full of art supplies and materials of all kinds. With a studio approach deeply rooted in our constructivist methodology, students explore collage, painting, drawing, printmaking and so much more! Coming soon: the electrical installation for our new pottery kiln! Our school art studio is a space that all students, preschool through secondary, use during their weekly art classes and access as desired during secondary flex blocks.
- Dedicated music classroom: constructivism is alive in our music classes with a balance between music theory, instrumental work and music creation for students from preschool through 11th grade at Futuro Verde. Recent improvements include new instruments for student use: two electric pianos, multiple professional quality recorders and percussion sets that join our current collection of string and wind instruments already available at the school. With new recording equipment currently en route from the US, we are excited for the upcoming music creation possibilities. Also, stay tuned for a new purpose built music classroom that is coming soon! Our music classroom is a space that all students, preschool through secondary, use during weekly music classes and access as desired during recess and flex blocks.
If you haven’t yet seen our new and renewed spaces in person, please come by for a tour and be amazed by our inspiring improvements. Remember, these changes, which directly supported our candidacy for IB*, now benefit Futuro Verde students of ALL ages and grade levels!
*Centro Educativo Futuro Verde is a candidate school* for the Diploma Programme. This school is pursuing authorization as an IB World School. These are schools that share a common philosophy- a commitment to high quality, challenging, international education that Centro Educativo Futuro Verde believes is important for our students.Only schools authorized by the IB Organization can offer any of its four academic programmes: the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), the Diploma Programme or the Career-related Programme (CP). Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted.
For further information about the IB and its programmes, visit http://www.ibo.org
by Lural Ramirez | Sep 3, 2017
Futuro Verde is a unique school in that our students come to us from a wide variety of home communities; from just down the street and from long distances by bus each morning. In our ongoing efforts to assure our students have a schedule that best supports their learning and holistic well-being, we are proud to announce a shift to an 8:00 am start for all students for the 2018 school year!
Imagine having an extra 30 minutes each morning before school? What will you do with that extra time? Will you get some much needed extra sleep? Maybe catch a few more waves during your morning surf session? Or, just enjoy a calmer and easier family morning routine?
Whatever your family’s benefit is from this important schedule change, we hope you are excited for this new change!
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by Stephanie Nuñez Jiménez | Aug 21, 2017
September 15th is the Costa Rican Independence Day, which will be celebrated in the entire country. In this country, as in the rest of Central America, the students carry the responsibility of organizing the most important activities on this day. The aim is to teach them honor, values, patriotism and respect and learn about history and tradition.
In 1964, Alfredo Cruz Bolaños, a Costa Rican citizen, had the idea to represent the years of struggle leading up to the independence with fire. That same year, a group of countrymen descended from Guatemala to our country, in order to awaken a tradition. The torch of freedom is carried from Nicaragua to Cartago the day before Independence Day, with students running different stretches and passing the torch on each time. Likewise, students of educational centers nationwide run with the torch and pass the fire on from school to school on the 15th of September.
Children play an important role in the September celebrations, as they are the main participants. Our students feel excited about the upcoming events and are rehearsing enthusiastically for the typical dances, creating their lanters and looking forward to running with the Torch.
